Sentences with phrase «good church service»

Easter, to me, speaks of a really good church service and really good food.

Easter, to me, speaks of a really good church service and really good food.

Among the highlights: getting to know my sisters - in - law better, participating in perhaps the best church service I've been to in years, indulging in Maki Evans» delicious cupcakes gourmet, enjoying an impromptu living room concert from the Beekeepers, seeing more wildlife in one week in New Jersey than I've seen in years in Tennessee (deer, rabbits, foxes, turkeys, etc.), watching Veggie Tales with my beautiful nephew Will, long morning walks with my mother - in - law, and a Mother's Day gathering that included half of the family (which is over fifteen people!).

Not exact matches

For some consumers, even Google's generally superior cameras and image displays will be insufficient to tear them away from the church of Apple, whose products and services tend to work best when paired together.

Osteen's Christian self - help books, including Your Best Life Now, have been a mainstay of bestseller lists since 2004, and Osteen has been broadcasting services from the Houston church since 1999.

I am all in favor of music at a church, but starting out, why do we drop a full - time salary on a worship pastor salary when most church plants take a good year before they hold their first service?

Think of how much better not only our church services would be if we all waited for God before going inside, but how much better the rest of our lives would be as well.

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

In fact, so discredited has the overpopulation science become that this year Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly could publish Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population and garner a starred review in Publishers Weekly — all in service of what is probably the single best demolition of the population arguments that some hoped would undermine church teaching.

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

they go to church on sunday, stop at the liquor store after services, and watch a fun filled afternoon of good ol' football because that is a peaceful sport that is beneficial to mankind.

BTW, although governments give religions certain tax breaks (because they provide services that the government otherwise would have to provide, as well as promote overall stability that contribute to the stability of civilization), the LDS Church (the one headquartered in Salt Lake City) pays many taxes that it is not legally required to pay.

In that church the offering was received near the end of the service, well after the conclusion of the sermon.

One of the more surprising things I discovered (or maybe it's not so surprising) is that while many of the churches did a good job talking about their services times, children's programs, and upcoming events, few wrote much about opportunities for -LSB-...]

I feel like I am letting my parents down as well since we used to go to the same church service that they did.

Drawing on recently discovered materials from the archives of Communist intelligence services, Weigel describes the forty - year history of their attempts to discredit Karol Woytyla and the Church in what Woytyla himself described as a «great struggle between good and evil... a great struggle between Mary and Satan.»

«Well, I attended church all my life and supported its ministry with my tithe and service.»

When parents exercise their «unrenounceable authority» 11 as a service to the well - being of their children, the children's gifts of love, respect and obedience become their specific contribution to the building up of both Church and society.12

I cried last night in front of my sons during our church's good Friday service!

Parked beside the church was the mechanics» truck whose sign may well have been appropriate for both the restaurant and the church: «Refrigerated Services.»

Well if that is the case the State should not force a Church to pay for services or drugs that it does not believe in.

If it did nothing else but keep alive in the world the disturbing and revolutionary notion that humble service is better than strutting power, wise men would support and foster the church with all the strength at their command.

Lasting about as long as a church service, a good movie transports you to another realm where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.

After that I'll be spending Sunday (October 6) with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, speaking at the 10 a.m. service and then sharing about my «year of biblical womanhood» at a 7 p.m. for their Dimensions of Faith series.

At the time of my ordination discussions to unite the Church of England and the Methodist Church were well advanced — even so, as I was marrying a Methodist, the diocesan bishop refused permission for us to have Communion at our wedding service.

They are planting churches in Budapest, particularly in North Budapest and doing works of service to show and share the good news of Jesus Christ.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

If you want to kill your church, the best place to begin is by cancelling the church service.

At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish church.

According to Trena Mewborn, Director of Counseling Service at First Baptist Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.&Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.&church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.»

The crucifixion of Jesus was marked in Jerusalem on Good Friday when thousands of Christians attended a service held at a church considered by some believers to be where Jesus died and was buried.

They're doing good work within the framework of church traditions, like services, fellowship, programs and sermons.

There are many Christians who go through life caring only about attending the next Bible study, going to the next church service, and reading the next Christian best seller.

I'd always considered the children's activity bags for the church service a gift to parents, but began hearing their subtle message to children that they are best seen and not heard, when really, God loves them loud and wild, like they really are.

Maybe this service actually represented the mainline church at its best.

Anyway... I found myself wanting to watch my church service online, or look on television for another service... or looking for sermons that I could find online... and then Jesus did one of those... Jesus things, that He does so well.

As Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has argued, churches that have articulated a normative theology of the family, tempered by a strong emphasis on human fallibility, are often better equipped to speak frankly about departures from their ideals and to offer services to members who have fallen short of those ideals.

The support of graduate theological study for Methodists in first - rate universities, with a view to the enlargement of the talent pool of well - trained «evangelicals» for service in both academy and church.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.

that maybe the best way to get our church services to look like Jesus is to cancel our church services altogether.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

Schools could recognize faculty members for effective committee service as well as for teaching and research; churches could honor those who pray and visit as well as those who preach and sing; families could praise helpful and encouraging children as well as the athletic or beautiful.

They think the church is sustained by the services it provides or the amount of fellowship and good feeling in the congregation.

I have previously suggested that one of the best things a pastor could do for their church is cancel all church services.

He has on the whole a very good name in the Christian East, and not only for past services rendered: his long history of cordial ties to the Orthodox Church, especially to the Russian Cathedral in Buenos Aires; his close friendship with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; and so on.

In this way, canceling the church service may very well be God's will for your people.

In that church the offering was received near the end of the service, well after...